Dr. Laitinen is a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. She earned her DVM in 2001 and her PhD in 2011 from the University of Helsinki. She conducted clinical work for her PhD at Kansas State University and the University of Illinois (2007-2009). She completed her radiology residency in Scandinavia, traveling mostly between Helsinki, Finland; Uppsala, Sweden; and Oslo, Norway.

She worked for the University of Helsinki Faculty of Veterinary Medicine for almost 11 years, first as a hospital veterinarian (2004-2005) and since 2005 as a clinician teacher in diagnostic imaging until early 2015. Before joining to VetCT she worked in teleradiology for Idexx Telemedicine consultants for almost 2 years.